Odyssey 3

Midnight at Norms.

It was a typical Tyler-Anna sleepover; jumped about, destroyed my bed, baked, took a walk, and somehow ended up lying on my floor in a huge human knot. After dinner, we slipped in our pajamas and smothered our faces in our ritual avocado clay facial mask. As we were watching Love Actually and the scene where they are at the school play comes on, both Tyler and my stomachs began to growl. Both hungry, we wondered what food we could possibly get at midnight. We walked into my dad’s office where he was up working late. Startled by our green, cracking faces he yelped with fear before settling down. I went over to him and sat on one of his legs. “Hi Sir Raphe. I’m hungry,” Tyler told him, hopping on to his other leg. “Me too!” he replied. “I have an idea! Why don’t we go to Norms?” Amazed that my dad was willing to take us out at such a late hour, Tyler and I zipped into my room to wash off our faces and put some shoes on. We bundled up in our pajamas and the three of us were off. I had expected Norms to be close to empty, but pulling up I saw that almost every table was full. Tyler and I jumped out to get a table while my dad parked the “man van”. A portly woman greeted us with cherry red lipstick smeared on her four front teeth. “Hey there honey’s, let me show ya’ll to a table.” She led us to a booth in the back where my dad met us. We immediately ordered two hot chocolates and began to look over the menu. Between the three of us we ordered enough to satisfy fifteen hungry Marlborough Girls. As the food came, we laughed and my dad told us stories about him and his brothers when they were little. By the end of the meal, we were al so full we could hardly move. When we finally found the strength to get up, I practically had to drag Tyler to the car. We piled into the van and drove back home. This has become a tradition for us, though no night would be as special as the time we spent midnight at Norms.